Author: Leslie Leland LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quipu
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Ancient Quipu Or Peruvian Knot Record
Author: Leslie Leland LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quipu
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Ancient Quipu, a Peruvian Knot Record
Author: Leslie Leland LockeA Peruvian Quipu
Author: Leslie Leland LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of South America
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
The Ancient Quipu Or Peruvian Knot Record
Author: Leslie Leland LockePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quipu
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Mathematics of the Incas
Author: Marcia AscherPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486152707
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Unique, thought-provoking study discusses quipu, an accounting system employing knotted, colored cords, used by Incas. Cultural context, mathematics involved, and even how to make a quipu. Over 125 illustrations.
The Incas
Author: Terence N. D'AltroyPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1444331159
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
The Incas is a captivating exploration of one of the greatest civilizations ever seen. Seamlessly drawing on history, archaeology, and ethnography, this thoroughly updated new edition integrates advances made in hundreds of new studies conducted over the last decade. • Written by one of the world’s leading experts on Inca civilization • Covers Inca history, politics, economy, ideology, society, and military organization • Explores advances in research that include pre-imperial Inca society; the royal capital of Cuzco; the sacred landscape; royal estates; Machu Picchu; provincial relations; the khipu information-recording technology; languages, time frames, gender relations, effects on human biology, and daily life • Explicitly examines how the Inca world view and philosophy affected the character of the empire • Illustrated with over 90 maps, figures, and photographs
The Last Days of the Incas
Author: Kim MacQuarriePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743260503
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Documents the epic conquest of the Inca Empire as well as the decades-long insurgency waged by the Incas against the Conquistadors, in a narrative history that is partially drawn from the storytelling traditions of the Peruvian Amazon Yora people. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
Knot Records in Ancient and Modern Peru
Author: Carol J. MackeyPublisher:
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Category : Incas
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Quipus and Witches' Knots
Author: Cyrus Lawrence DayPublisher: Lawrence : U. of Kansas P.
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Shows how know were used to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions, to cure diseases, bewistch enemies, and control the forces of nature, to tie things and hold things together.
Quipus and Witches' Knots
Author: Cyrus Lawence DayPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700631461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to cure diseases, bewitch enemies, and control the forces of nature; and practical knots—to tie things and hold things together. In his discussion of mnemonic knots, the author analyzes the Peruvian quipus (or knot-calendars and knot-records) and suggests that the Inca astronomer-priests, known to have been accurate observers of the movements of the planets, may also have been able to predict the dates of lunar eclipses; and he shows how it is possible to manipulate the Ina abacus in accordance with the decimal system. His treatment of magic knots includes instances from Babylonian times to the present, with curious examples of the supernatural power attributed to the Hercules knot (i.e., the square knot) in Egypt, Greece, and Rome. His analysis of a little-known treatise on surgeons’ slings and nooses, written by the Green physician Heraklas, is the first detailed account of the specific practical knots used by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Quipus and Witches’ Knots, which is abundantly illustrated, often surprises the reader with the unexpected ways in which the once universal dependence of men on knots has left its mark on the language, customs, and thought of modern civilized peoples.